Do you see a scenario where a President Romney implements the New Deal II?

[matmar]

Would a Republican Congress with a Republican President pass such a thing?

[dawg]

1. No.

Monkeys will fly out of his butt first.

[deutsey]

2. In an alternate reality, perhaps

but in not this one.

[unblock]

3. sure, never underestimate their cynicism and lack of shame when it comes to naming their tax cuts!

that said, i don't see a scenario where there's a president rmoney.

[tk2kewl]

4. It should have been done in January 2009

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Not New Deal,

RAW* Deal







*RAW= Renouncing American Workers

[ProSense]

6. Question:

Do you see a scenario where a President Romney implements the New Deal II?

Would a Republican Congress with a Republican President pass such a thing?

Do you?

[Autumn]

7. No. I can't even see a scenario where President Obama implements the New Deal II

I just don't think these politicians are that into us.

[joeybee12]

21. +1

[Poll_Blind]

22. +2

PB

[WI_DEM]

8. What is your opinion?

[matmar]

10. From what I see and hear of the modern Republican Party....

and from what we have experienced under the last Republican gov't, I think they are controlled by a bunch of nuts.

I'm just wondering if they have within them the ability to act in a way to save America if we were to experience another huge crash. I'm afraid that Obama's tepid approach to governing the economy has put the entire gov't at risk of Republican takeover.

[ProSense]

11. Let me

get this straight: You're afraid that Obama's "tepid approach to governing the economy has put the entire gov't at risk of Republican takeover," but you're "wondering if (Republicans) have within them the ability to act in a way to save America if we were to experience another huge crash"?

IOW, you believe Obama has jeopardized the economy and are wondering if Republicans will save it.

Is that it?

[matmar]

12. No.

I'm saying that in 2009 if Obama had gone full on FDR, even if it had been shot down, the people who didn't show up at the polls in 2010 might have because they would have known that this guy wasn't messing around trying to play footsie with the obstructionist Republicans.

He had a once in a century chance to do something big and he blew it by trying to be Mr. Bipartisan with a group who wanted nothing to do with being bipartisan.

The American people didn't have the time to waste on being "bipartisan"

[ProSense]

15. So

"I'm saying that in 2009 if Obama had gone full on FDR, even if it had been shot down, the people who didn't show up at the polls in 2010 might have because they would have known that this guy wasn't messing around trying to play footsie with the obstructionist Republicans. "

...you believe low information voters would have flocked to the polls "if Obama had gone full on FDR, even if it had been shot down," and they would blame Republicans?

"He had a once in a century chance to do something big and he blew it by trying to be Mr. Bipartisan with a group who wanted nothing to do with being bipartisan. "

Big like passing health care reform after 100 years of attempts? Like adding 16 million to the Medicaid rolls? Like strenghtening Medicare and implementing free preventive care for seniors? Like enacting Wall Street reform, giving the FDIC more powers and establishing the CFPB? Like saving the auto industry (Romney is still trying to take credit for that) and preventing another Great Depression?

Or bigger?

[matmar]

17. Dodd/Frank is a joke.

Healthcare reform should have included a public option that he, Obama, shot down in closed door meetings with the healthcare industry while acting like he was for it in his public pronouncements.

Having said that, half a loaf is better than no loaf.

[hifiguy]

9. The day after I see a herd of domestic swine

flying around my 16th floor office, sure.

[bigwillq]

13. I can't see it.

But stranger things have happened.

I actually hope it happens (not a repuke prez or congress) but government actually doing something to help the people instead of their own agenda.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Yes.

It involves a very cold devil wearing earmuffs and a parka.

[HooptieWagon]

16. I can see them passing the "Put America to Work Act"...

Which will comprise of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, cuts to unemployment, education, medicaid, National Park Service, etc, decreased regulation esp Wall St and extraction industries.

[GeorgeGist]

18. Sure.

It's really the Republicans who are winning the art of 3D etch-a-sketch.

To quote Mr. R*ve,

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

as needed.

[Motown_Johnny]

19. Yes, but the policies would be the opposite of the real New Deal

All the power would go to corporations and the free market would be left to deal with those pesky humans.

[GoCubsGo]

20. Yes.

But, then I wake up.

[quaker bill]

23. No, but if things get truly bad enough,

they will pass something to make it much worse. In a perverse way they might call it "the new deal II".

[spanone]

24. i don't see a 'president romney' scenario